This very car-dealery-looking structure next to Keyes Lexus on the southwest corner of Van Nuys Boulevard and Oxnard Street is slated to be the new Keyes Chevrolet dealership, according to a source. (Photographed on April 24, 2014, by Steven Rosenberg)

You could have guessed it, but now that a source has confirmed, I can safely say the huge development on the southwest corner of Van Nuys Boulevard and Oxnard Street on Van Nuys Auto Row is going to be the new Keyes Chevrolet dealership.

For more than a few years, Keyes Chevrolet has occupied the midcentury-but-aging building across Oxnard Street, just as Rydell Chevrolet did before it.

But Keyes is all about building. From the ground up. A few businesses, including a fairly extensive heavy-equipment-rental facility, were torn down to make way for the bigger (and most likely way, way better) Keyes Chevrolet.

The structure is definitely taking shape, and it looks like the building will be much more than a stale box. You expect a bit of design flare from Keyes, whose European (which is mostly Mercedes) dealership is Van Nuys Auto Row’s showplace. The remodels at the Hyundai and Toyota stores are pretty nice, too.

Back to the new Chevy facility. As with all new Keyes shops, this one has an extensive, multi-level garage behind it. Not that it’s going to be noticeable because the Keyes design philosophy seems to make those huge behemoths really blend in. They design to “hide” the structure and then landscape to make it all look even better.

There’s no sign out front saying “Keyes Chevrolet’s new home,” or anything other than listing the name and number of the contractor.

Even though it’s a public-focused retail business, Keyes doesn’t like to toot its own horn. I wonder if they even have a horn to toot.

But if you were wondering what’s been going up on that Van Nuys corner, now you know.

As to what’s going to happen to the “old” Chevy dealership, I have no idea. I’m not sure it’ll be so easy to tear down, given the building’s midcentury-showplace design, even if the thing looks like it could use a few million in upgrades:

The “old” Keyes Chevrolet building across the street from the new, unfinished dealership location housed Rydell Chevrolet before Keyes took over. The building is something of a midcentury landmark, though it could use a bit of work. It’s on the northeast corner of Van Nuys Boulevard and Oxnard Street on the Van Nuys Auto Row. (Photo taken on April 24, 2014, by Steven Rosenberg)

The mostly vacant building on the southwest corner of Van Nuys Boulevard and Hatteras Street on Van Nuys Auto Row was totally vacated and then torn down in the past couple of days. It is across the street from Keyes Toyota on one side and Keyes Hyundai on the other. It is next door to Casa Automotive Group’s Subaru dealership. (Photo taken on April 24, 2014, by Steven Rosenberg)

You can’t help but notice that the barely used building on the southwest corner of Van Nuys Boulevard and Hatteras Street on Van Nuys Auto Row was torn down over the past two or so days.

While an electronics-repair business, a graphic-design studio (which used to let the public use their copy machine for a small fee), then a door-and-window supplier have all been gone for quite some time, the wedding chapel in the corner space seemed to be a going concern for much longer. It also offered divorce, travel-agency and money-wiring services, if I remember correctly.

Now the whole thing is history. It’s not a big space, so I don’t see a full-fledged car dealership going it there. But with all the recent development in the Van Nuys Auto Row area, who knows what could go in there?

It’s been a busy year on the Row. Keyes is building a new Chevy dealership. They already remodeled their Toyota store. Center is seemingly taking forever to expand its Acura floorspace.

And don’t forget the arrival of Chipotle, PizzaRev and a few other businesses on the corner of Van Nuys and Burbank Boulevards.

The space kitty-corner to the former wedding-chapel location, which housed an independent used-car dealership, has been vacant for a few months now with no signs of anything happening with that space, which is also too small for a big-time auto dealership.